Vietnamese culture: How to play Vietnam traditional lottery

Posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2018

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How to play Vietnam traditional lottery

Lottery sellers are everywhere in Vietnam. Living in Vietnam, you can notice them wandering the streets trying to sell the tickets before 3 pm everyday. The lotteries are run by Vietnam’s 63 provincial governments, with daily prizes from 100.000VND up to 2 billion VND. Each ticket is sold for 10.000VND and the result will be pronounced at/from 4 pm.

Here is how to play Vietnamese lottery:

First, we will see the 3 important indexes in the lottery (which are circled in the image below):

1. Province. In the picture, it’s Tiền Giang.

2. Date. In the picture, it’s 06/05/2018 (6th of May)

3. And the most important index is the numbers. In the picture, it’s 960682.